For most of his career, Elston was commonly known as the only full-time editorial sports cartoonist in Canada, and he has a galaxy of autographs and framed keepsakes on display from the very same NHL personalities he was once paid to skewer. His work appeared in Canadian newspapers, as well as The Hockey News and, […]
Last month Brian Basset reported he had cancer surgery forcing Red and Rover into rerun status. In late June Red and Rover returned to new comic strips, then last week it was back to reruns.Darryl Heine contacted the cartoonist to ask why and Brian responded: This has been an extremely trying time for me. After […]
When David Lee Finkle stopped creating new Mr. Fitz comic strips earlier this year he mentioned that he might return after taking a few months sabbatical from the deadlines.And so he has:The West Volusia Beacon, Mr. Fitz’s old print stomping ground, reports: They say if you love what you do, you’ll never work a day […]
Tony Dow’s death inspired Ruben Bolling to repost this Tom the Dancing Bug from 2012, which I liked then and I like now, not only because it pokes holes in the rightwing objections to liberal reform, but because it treats the original sitcom with more respect than it usually gets.“Leave It To Beaver” did have […]
Steve Stegelin’s illustrations have appeared in City Paper’s pages for 18 of its 25 years. You can see some of his best cartoons here. Each week, his award-winning editorial cartoon and Blotter drawings elicit laughs, prods and probably a few nods or head shakes, depending on whether you’re being lampooned by the city’s resident […]
First generation Greek American Stephan Pastis was once a high-powered lawyer in San Francisco before he chucked it all to become an author and one of the United State’s foremost comic strip artists. Now, with his “Pearls Before Swine” syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate, his cartoons, featuring Rat, Pig, the Zeeba family and their neighbors, […]
Jeff Koterba comments on Amazon’s purchase of a health care chain, which adds to the growing collection of stuff the octopus owns.It’s not quite the same thing as a monopoly, since there’s no logical connection between Amazon’s main business as a seller of things and the health clinic’s business as a seller of services, though […]
Two of the handful of premiere publishers of classic comic strips have entered a publishing and distribution agreement. Fantagraphics and Sunday Press announced they would be entering a partnership deal last week. From now on, Fantagraphics will be distributing the existing catalogue of Sunday Press titles and from 2023 new books will be published under […]
New Yorker cartoonist Tom Toro has created a new comic for GoComics. Home Free is a digital comic strip that follows the wacky-yet-loveable Szabo family. Mr. Szabo, hardworking and frugal-to-a-fault, has bitten off a little more than he can chew in home improvement projects. And if the hassle of a home reno wasn’t enough, he […]
America’s Best Comics? Pfft.We’re talking The World’s Greatest Comics! As always the left and the right (coasts) disagree.But we’re going on the record, though your mileage may vary:Then there are the subsections. But even when broken into smaller bits not all see eye to eye, though to my thinking it is more elementary than the above […]
Paul Fell offers a nuanced take on the current, horrific situation in the wake of Dobbs, as red states flex their newly acquired muscle without, as he suggests, any solid sense of how to do it.“Nuanced” in that, while he depicts the incredibly harsh laws as vicious, he makes the lawmaker appear more foolish and […]
JD Crowe of the Alabama Media Group took First Place in the 2022 Editorial Cartooning category of The Green Eyeshade Awards handed out by the Southern Chapter of the SPJ.The award is based on: Outstanding visual commentary on news or issues. Judging emphasis will be on originality and effectiveness of message. JD […]
Comic book editor and writer Sid Jacobson has passed away. Sidney R. (Sid) Jacobson October 20, 1929 – July 23, 2022 From Sid’s son Seth:My father, Sid Jacobson, passed Saturday night (July 23rd) at Mission Hospice House in Redwood City, south of San Francisco. He went peacefully after suffering a major stroke during a seemingly […]
Tom Tomorrow asks how we’ve managed to undo so much so quickly.It’s an excellent question. But as the seeds of all those reforms were being planted, the seeds of their destruction were also being sown.The 1968 Presidential Campaign in which Nixon edged out Humphrey saw George Wallace mount a redneck-based effort that secured him five states […]
But before we get to the news…After a week of Comic Con intro panels to Mutts it would be a shame if you didn’t see the Sunday panel (and the inspiration): Mutts © Patrick McDonnell; Hulk © Marvel Entertainment I would say that eight-year-old Ciaunna Williams is going to be a cartoonist except she […]